Why We All Gave Up on Smart Homes

⚡ Build fully functional apps with AI using Emergent. No backend setup, no infra to manage. Try it here: https://app.emergent.sh/landing/?utm_... ---- Smart homes were supposed to be the future. Hollywood promised us houses that just worked. Instead, we got disconnected apps, broken automations, voice assistants that fail basic commands, and a graveyard of abandoned smart home gadgets collecting dust in drawers. So what happened? In this episode, Caya dives into the hidden history of smart homes — from 1970s protocols like X10 to Zigbee, Z-Wave, Thread, Matter, Alexa, HomeKit, and the modern chaos of incompatible ecosystems. We break down why smart homes feel so unreliable, why even simple automations fail constantly, why companies keep abandoning devices, and why the “Hollywood smart home” turned into a maintenance nightmare for normal people. But this isn’t just a rant. After weeks of testing, rebuilding, and going way too deep into the rabbit hole, Caya finds something that actually works: a local, open-source setup built around Home Assistant and local AI. This video is part history lesson, part tech breakdown, and part warning about the future of connected devices. Because maybe the biggest problem with smart homes… was never the technology. -- Recommended videos:    • yeah... no wonder movies look cheap on new...      • Why OpenClaw Might Be the First Actually U...   -- Follow us LinkedIn:   / slidebean   Instagram:   / slidebean   Caya X (Twitter):   / cayahere   LinkedIn:   / caya   -- 📚 Sources & References Survey on smart home frustration https://www.digitalinformationworld.c... Crestron TPS-6000 documentation https://ia801904.us.archive.org/8/ite... History of Crestron touchscreens https://www.strata-gee.com/building-o... X10 / Powerline communication explanation https://www.digikey.com/en/articles/p... IoT funding boom data https://www.cbinsights.com/research/i... Lowe’s Iris shutdown coverage https://www.cnet.com/home/smart-home/... WiFi / Zigbee / Bluetooth spectrum overlap https://www.researchgate.net/figure/W... Amazon Alexa Zigbee support docs https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/do... Phoebus cartel history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus... Home Assistant 10-year history https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/20... -- #SmartHome #HomeAssistant #Alexa #Matter #Zigbee #HomeAutomation #IoT #TechExplained #ArtificialIntelligence #OpenSource #HomeKit #SmartDevices #Slidebean #FutureTech #TechHistory #Emergent #VibeCoding #NoCode #AIAppBuilder